WHY IS OUR GOVERNMENT WORKING AGAINST, NOT FOR, THE PEOPLE?

I wonder why Donald Trump has so much trouble making deals in his own country? It seems he managed a deal in Gaza. So why not here in his own country? The Trump administration and the GOP Congress refuse to find a fix that will keep healthcare premiums from skyrocketing beyond affordability for many Americans. Case in point, Donald Trump got his COVID-19 and flu vaccinations last week. The rest of us may not be as lucky. Speaker Johnson just announced that the House will remain in recess next week. They have not been in session since September 19. This means the shutdown, barring something unexpected, will go on at least until the week of October 20th. Are they still receiving paychecks for no work done? Why are we subsidizing their non-action that harms we the people? Or is it more that Republicans are more frightened of a vote to release the Epstein files? Which will happen assuming the House is ever back in session and the newly-elected Rep from AZ is actually sworn in. Talk about hostage taking. Apparently even the government shutdown must take a back seat to the need to protect whoever it is that will be impacted by releasing the Epstein files. So while Trump is being feted for his ending of the Mideast conflict, we have to acknowledge the feat of getting hostages released. That is most definitely a good thing. And we hope the extensive hyperbole about the rest of the plan holds true. Time will tell. In the meantime America would appreciate a bit of the presidential leadership currently being celebrated in countries not our own. But it’s hard to be celebrated while waging war against your own citizens. MAGA may buy the fiction that Trump is battling the “enemy from within,” but voters, courts, and even Republican governors continue to confirm that Trump is the actual menace. Republicans would be smart to flee the losing side of an unsustainable position that has unified opposition across the country. Perhaps to finally realize that a society grounded in fiction, rather than reality, cannot function, and is not functioning. And all the fantastical hyperbole and divisive rhetoric in the world will never make it so.